Re: fbcon + scrolling = irq timeouts?

James Simmons (jsimmons@edgeglobal.com)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:35:29 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > > normally use any vesa bios functions at runtime!) you spend just too
> > > much time in kernel space and mp3 player fails to meet that deadline.
> > >
> > > So cure could be few schedules() at strategical places in fbcon
> >
> > Ok. I don't have a problem with that.
>
> Unfortunately, my machine has some problems with it.
>
> is
>
> if (current->need_resched)
> schedule()
>
> the way to go? I tried that and console got pretty much unusable. I
> guess I'll need to introduce one more semaphore?
> Pavel

Where did you place this code in fbcon ?

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